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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

Trump: United States Ready to Make a ‘Real Deal’ With Iran

This further isolates the Mullahs in particular. They are now positioned between an aggressive USA foreign policy and a clearly restive population who are completely pro western and know exactly what is standing in their way.

Will the mullahs blink? Trump's words were meant to publicly humiliate the Mullahs in a way that every Iranian understands. It is one thing to call the USA the Great Satan. It is quite another when the Great Satan tells you to shut your trap. You really cannot have it both ways.

Truth is that the USA holds all the cards and always has. Weak American governments failed to understand this and this allowed decades of egregious Iranian meddling contrary to anyone's interests. We want a dynamic healthy Iran who threatens no one and participates in peace making in the region.

President Donald Trump has expressed willingness to engage with the
Iranian leadership two days after pushing back against the threatening
rhetoric of the Iranian president.

“I withdrew the United States from the horrible one-sided Iran
nuclear deal. And Iran is not the same country anymore, that I can say.
And we’ll see what happens. But we’re ready to make a real deal, not
the deal that was done by the previous administration, which was a
disaster,” Trump said on July 24 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention in Kansas City.

The remark comes after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on
Sunday that Trump shouldn’t “play with the lion’s tail” or he “will
regret it.” Trump responded
on Twitter, saying Rouhani should “never, ever threaten the United
States again” or he will “suffer consequences the likes of which few
throughout history have ever suffered before.”

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER
THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE
LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE
NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE
& DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!

The Trump administration has increased its pressure on Iran’s Islamic regime in recent months.In May, Trump pulled out of the Iran deal,
which was signed by former President Barack Obama, the other four
permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—Russia, China,
the United Kingdom, France—Germany, and the European Union.

Under the deal, officially known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of
Action (JCPOA), Iran received up to $150 billion in sanctions relief as
well as cash payments.

The two main concerns that the Trump administration had with the
JCPOA was that it included so-called sunset clauses, which would have
allowed Iran to install thousands of advanced uranium centrifuges by
2026. Another concern was the fact that Iran’s ballistic missile
development was not covered under the agreement.

The withdrawal from the agreement came after Iran was given months of opportunity to re-negotiate these parts of the deal.

Trump has since ordered the imposition of “the highest level” of
sanctions, part of which will go into effect on Aug. 6 and the rest,
including the key ones on oil, energy, and banking, on Nov. 4.

U.S. State Secretary Mike Pompeo dissected the Iranian regime’s litany of abuses in a July 22 speech, calling out several leading Iranian officials by name for corruption, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Iran has been trying to salvage the nuclear deal with the remaining
signatories and convince them to maintain business ties, but violating
the sanctions would put entities at risk of losing access to the U.S.
banking system.

European Investment Bank President Werner Hoyer said last week that
the bank won’t be able to do business in Iran as it “would risk the
business model of the bank.”

More than 50 international companies have left Iran already, said
Brian Hook, director of policy planning for the U.S. State Department,
in a July 2 briefing.

Pompeo previously said the United States is willing to lift the
sanctions again, but listed 12 demands that the Iranian regime will have
to meet first, including the end of its ballistic missile program,
releasing detained Americans, and stopping its support of terrorist
groups and militias including Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis, as well
as withdrawing its forces from Syria.

“It’s time for Iran to shape up and show responsibility as a responsible nation,” U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said
on Tuesday, commenting on Trump’s tweet. “It cannot continue to show
irresponsibility as some revolutionary organization that is intent on
exporting terrorism, exporting disruption across the region. So I think
the president was making very clear that they’re on the wrong track.”

At the same time, the Trump administration maintains its not pursuing a regime change in Iran, or at least not necessarily.

“The only change we want is a change of behavior,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert during Tuesday press briefing.

“Authorities in the security apparatus and Iran’s judiciary continued
to target journalists, online media activists, and human rights
defenders in an ongoing crackdown that showed blatant disregard for
international and domestic legal standards,” the report stated, listing further transgressions against religious and other minorities.

Pompeo had an op-ed published in the USA Today on Tuesday, calling for the end of religious persecution in several countries, listing Iran first.

“Hundreds of Sufi Muslims in Iran remain imprisoned on account of
their beliefs, with reports of several dying at the hands of Iran’s
brutal security forces,” Pompeo wrote. “The religious intolerance of the
regime in Iran also applies to Christians, Jews, Sunnis, Baha’is,
Zoroastrians, and other minority religious groups simply trying to
practice their faiths.”

Iranians have been protesting their government en masse over the past several months, shouting slogans such as “our incompetent government is responsible for our nation’s poverty” and “death to dictator.”

Among their grievances are the lack of drinking water and the falling
price of Iran’s currency, the rial, from less than 10,000 to the dollar
a decade ago to over 43,000 to the dollar. Meanwhile, many Iranians are
left to buy dollars on the unofficial market for over 80,000 rials.

Some women in Iran have also been defying the regime by appearing in
public without their hair covered by a hijab, which poses the risk of
punishment ranging from a fine to prison time.

The Iranian regime began with a blend of Soviet subversion, and the
influences of Sayyid Qutb—a founding father of the Muslim
Brotherhood—who combined socialism with Islam to create the totalitarian
theocracies that have since swept the Muslim world.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy told The Epoch Times in a Dec. 14, 2017 interview
that Qutb’s socialist Islam created the idea of “Islamism” which warped
the concept of sharia (Islamic law), and advocated for “offensive
jihad,” which jump-started many terrorist movements.

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